I get the “no pineapple” point-of-view, pineapple would be much better on a white pizza (i.e. without tomato). I once has an awesome white pizza with plums on it in Lucca, and I could imagine pineapple – *fresh* pineapple – being really (but differently) good.

But the tinned pineapple… I did once go to a bar and order a Pimms that they made using a can of fruit salad (including banana!). Horrible. Why fruit (banana!) might need *extra* sugar I don’t get.

TachyonCode wrote:
I mean, if you’re going to put fruit on a pizza, at least have the decency to use tangerines.
Technically tomato is a fruit, so people have always been putting fruit on pizza.
…sorry I nerded out.

Peppers are also a fruit. (So is eggplant, which I happen to like on pizza.) And all of them come from the Americas, not Italy. 😉 Olives are fruit. Mushrooms are the “fruiting body” of the underground fungus life form.

I’m just relieved at the direction the plot is going. (I suspect Richard doesn’t even know Sandy is “missing,” at least to worry about.)

I find the stated ages of the kids implausible, though. I read them as early high school, e.g. around 15 or so. No one younger than 16 would be legally allowed to handle oven work in the US.

TachyonCode wrote:
I mean, if you’re going to put fruit on a pizza, at least have the decency to use tangerines.
Technically tomato is a fruit, so people have always been putting fruit on pizza.
…sorry I nerded out.

Well now I have to try tangerines because it sounds delicious, and apparently actually like fruit on pizza!

It’s good, just make sure that you cut them super thin. They share some similarity to onions, in that the smaller bits you cut them into, the better they taste raw when paired with other foods.

Mykel Darren wrote:
Peppers are also a fruit. (So is eggplant, which I happen to like on pizza.) And all of them come from the Americas, not Italy. Olives are fruit. Mushrooms are the “fruiting body” of the underground fungus life form.

As the other commenter suggested, it’s that they taste “fruity” that is important. Their actual genetic and horticultural classification is largely irrelevant to their taste.

My Italian grandmother considered pizza as a way to use up leftovers. Roll out bread dough, top with leftover spaghetti sauce and whatever was in the fridge and bake. I was a teenager before I found out that there are ‘official’ recipes for pizza. All this ‘purity’ is silly.

What is with this pineapple-in-a-pizza rage these days? It’s been mentioned at least once from most webcomics I subscribed to in these past several months now since last year. Is this a meme now? >_<

Every few years they rise from the depths of the Earth, much like cicadas. The heathenistic pineapple fiends attempt to convert us normals to their chopped-fruit ways. The pineapple shines yellow like the sun, but don’t be swayed by its beauty!
For as bright as the sun burns, pineapple offends the senses.

Why the pineapple on pizza meme?
If you don’t like making it, just don’t put it on the menu. And when a cutomer still asks for it tell them that you don’t offer pineapple.
And pineapple on pizza is still tame. I have seen much worse pizza abonomations. And the frozen chocolatte chips pizza that had a big advertising campaign not long ago is not the worst of it.

Why the pineapple on pizza meme?
If you don’t like making it, just don’t put it on the menu. And when a cutomer still asks for it tell them that you don’t offer pineapple.
And pineapple on pizza is still tame. I have seen much worse pizza abonomations. And the frozen chocolatte chips pizza that had a big advertising campaign not long ago is not the worst of it.

The meme exists because people always argue about matters of taste, and have difficulty expressing themselves in regard to such subjects in non-confrontational ways. This is partly because language is a means of communication, and not a means of decisive, instantly-gratifying conflict resolution.

To people in general, everything’s a competition or a game, so everyone’s got to take a side, and merely witnessing someone else in the act of doing so is interpreted as a prompt to do the same.

You have fallen victim to it yourself, in fact – merely by responding with a comment and a handful of opinions.

My Italian grandmother considered pizza as a way to use up leftovers. Roll out bread dough, top with leftover spaghetti sauce and whatever was in the fridge and bake. I was a teenager before I found out that there are ‘official’ recipes for pizza. All this ‘purity’ is silly.

Exactly! Honestly, I don’t understand all this pizza buzz. Pizza was always a poor man’s food, one should throw inside whatever ingridients available. That’s the only “pure” recipe i can think of. And i see nothing wrong with pizza filled with pineapple, squid ink, dumplings or whatever.

You know what? Fuck this. I can’t be arsed replying to everyone individually, so:
To all those who like pineapple on pizza:
HISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
I mean, sprouts and chocolate sauce on pizza? Now THAT is art!

1oldbear wrote:
My Italian grandmother considered pizza as a way to use up leftovers. Roll out bread dough, top with leftover spaghetti sauce and whatever was in the fridge and bake. I was a teenager before I found out that there are ‘official’ recipes for pizza. All this ‘purity’ is silly.
Exactly! Honestly, I don’t understand all this pizza buzz. Pizza was always a poor man’s food, one should throw inside whatever ingridients available. That’s the only “pure” recipe i can think of. And i see nothing wrong with pizza filled with pineapple, squid ink, dumplings or whatever.

Very much on the order of the English ‘pie’ that you made by heating up whatever was around and putting it in a crust. Left-over mutton, twenty-four blackbirds, whatever! It drives me crazy, this need for foodies to worship ‘authenticity’ and drive up the price of things. Lamb shanks used to be what my mother bought to put some protein alongside the pasta. Now the damned things cost more than filet mignon. And let’s not even open the question of flank steak now that fajitas are de riguer.

W.R.T. the pizza. Hawiian is my favorite and if a customer orders his pizza with pineapple, he should get it with pineapple. The young lady has no right to ignore the customer’s wishes just because she doesn’t want to cook a pizza with pineapple. Granted, dumping an undrained can of pineapple on a freshly baked pizza is not the proper technique.

@ S-Ranker:
I like pineapple on pizza too. How about we unite and silence the folks who think having fruit on pizza is bad!
You don’t like it, don’t eat it, and leave us alone!
We won’t judge if you like stinky fishparts and mussels on your pizza, or if you like it 4cm thick, we won’t judge if you put fries on it or noodles!

Unite my friends for a future where everybody can eat whatever tastes good to them without being judged!

@ Ken:
And telling people that they can’t have pineapple on their pizza is American? I always found this sort of thing to be a “…liberty and pursuit of happiness…” thing. Pineapple on my pizza makes me happy.